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- From: chapman@grizzly.cs.washington.edu (Randy Chapman)
- Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Wicked ...
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- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:16:41 GMT
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- Philip Staite (pstaite+@rchland.ibm.com) wrote:
- [otherwise good message deleted]
- : Why does Java rate a 1 for portability? Can I go out _today_ and get a
- : Java environment for DOS? VMS? MVS? AIX, HP/UX, BSD, Linux, SVR5,
- : Irix? Mac? OS/2? Windows?
-
- Dos? no. VMS? no. MVS? no
- AIX? yes. HPUX? I believe so (but I think its alpha still)
- BSD? depends on the variant
- Linux? yes (works on NetBSD and FreeBSD as well)
- SVR5? not that I know of
- Irix? yes
- Mac ?yes
- Os/2? yes
- Windows? yes (currently only 95/NT)
-
- : The only ones I know about are Win95 and
- : Solaris. Maybe I'm way behind here, but as far as I know Java
- : development environments have been released for only a couple of
- : platforms, and only a couple of versions of browsers support it *right
- : now*.
-
- I think its there for more than half your platforms... how do those
- implementations compare to what that platform offers for, say,
- C++ with STL ? I wouldn't swear as to which is more supported.
-
- : Overall this appears to be a highly subjective and arbitrary comparison.
-
- aren't any language comparisons? You need to look at it from what you
- need to do and what resources you have, you can't just say
- X is the only useable language.
-
- --randy
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